I am a docent of biomedical data science. I graduated as a doctor of computer science in 2014, and as a master of biotechnology in 2008. After my PhD I worked for three years as an Academy of Finland post-doctoral researcher.

My primary research focus is text mining from scientific literature using machine learning, with the intent to provide novel methods and applications to aid in bioscientific research. In these areas I have contributed the TEES (Turku Event Extraction System) machine learning software which was also the focus of my PhD thesis. Central additional research tasks include the CAFA (automated protein function prediction) task and organizing the EPE (extrinsic parser evaluation) shared task.

I have been working in the AI academy project since 2020 and I'm currently a lecturer in this project. Due to my cross-disciplinary background I'm particularly interested in approaches to illustrate and elucidate computer science concepts also for people coming from non-CS backgrounds.